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lame54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-19-10 07:30 AM
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Are We Paranoid Enough?
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latest-news/hidden-world-growing-beyond-control

Two-year Washington Post investigation finds 1,271 government organizations
and 1,931 corporations with 854,000 people with top security clearances
spending $75 billion per year on "counter-terrorism"
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-19-10 07:31 AM
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1. You dissin' the war on terra? nt
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lame54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-19-10 08:13 AM
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3. No I'm REFUDIATING it
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Enthusiast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-19-10 08:16 AM
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4. Don't you be doin' no refutiatin'!
Leave that to those in charge.
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-19-10 12:34 PM
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8. Only a Nazi Socialist Commie who hates America would refudiate it!
:rofl:
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NightWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-19-10 07:35 AM
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2. 75 billion a year... you still think this is about guys with boxcutters?
It's the new Cold War, but last time the Soviets were real. This time it's about boogiemen that you may never see. Bravo, pure genius. And you thought Billy Mays could sell you shit you don't need...
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Enthusiast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-19-10 08:18 AM
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6. It is the only way
to justify spending billions for no good reason. They have to do it. Actually they exaggerated the Soviet threat during the cold war for the very same purpose.
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-19-10 12:35 PM
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9. You mean the only way to steal billions. nt
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pscot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-19-10 08:53 AM
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7. The National Security State
demands to be fed.
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RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-19-10 08:18 AM
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5. Next will be the something akin to the Joseph McCarthy investigations and
that mess...
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